For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BOARD OF HEALTH. The County Board of Health of Charleston County, South Carolina.
DWELLING. Any building or structure, or part thereof, used and occupied for human habitation or intended to be so used, and includes any outhouses and appurtenances belonging thereto or usually enjoyed therewith.
DWELLING UNIT. Any separate aggregation of rooms within any building or structure used and occupied for human habitation, or intended to be so used, and includes any part thereof and outhouses and appurtenances belonging thereto or usually enjoyed therewith.
GOVERNING BODY. The Town Council of Sullivan’s Island.
LIVING ROOM. A room or enclosed floor space used or intended to be used for living, sleeping or cooking purposes, excluding bathroom, toilet room, laundries, pantries, foyers or community corridors, closets and storage spaces.
MUNICIPALITY. The Town of Sullivan’s Island.
MULTIPLE DWELLING. A dwelling designed or occupied other than as a one-family or two-family dwelling. The term MULTIPLE DWELLING shall be understood to include apartment houses, tenement houses and all other family dwellings of similar character, except row houses and town houses, where apartments or suites are occupied and used as separate complete housekeeping units, but not to include hotels or apartment hotels. The term also includes boarding houses, rooming houses and any other dwelling or dwelling unit occupied by three or more persons who are not related by blood or marriage.
OCCUPANT. Any persons living and sleeping, either or both, in a dwelling or rooming unit.
OPERATOR. Any person who has charge, care or control of a building or part thereof in which dwelling unit and/or rooming units are let.
OWNER. The holder of the title in fee simple and every mortgagee on record.
PARTIES IN INTEREST. All individuals, associations, corporations and others who have interest of record in a dwelling and any who are in possession thereof.
PUBLIC AUTHORITY. Any housing authority or any officer who is in charge of any department or branch of the government of the town or the state relating to health, fire, building regulations or to other activities concerning dwellings in the town.
PUBLIC SAFETY AND HOUSING OFFICER. The Fire Chief, who is authorized by this chapter to exercise the powers prescribed in this chapter.
ROOMING HOUSE. Any dwelling or that part of any dwelling containing three or more rooming units in which space is let by the owner or operator to three of more persons who are not husband or wife, son or daughter, mother or father, or sister or brother of the owner or operator.
ROOMING UNIT. Any room or group of rooms forming a single unit used or intended to be used for living and sleeping, but not for cooking or eating purposes.
(Prior Code, § 5-23) (Ord. passed 5-19-1975; Ord. passed 11-21-1983)